Is your company prepared for war?
The lesson is clear: investing in resilience now, before the next crisis strikes, will pay dividends in both stability and opportunity. As both a futurist and a Swedish Armed Forces squad leader, I know that preparedness and resilience are more than merely having contingency plans on paper—they need to be woven into the very fabric of organizational strategy and culture.
Will seven companies rule the world?
We all agree on the problems with the authoritarian surveillance state, but what about the fact that only a handful of private companies rule the rest of the world?
The Illusion of permanence
To truly understand the illusion of permanence, one must sit silently, letting go of all attachments, all concepts, all desires. In this silence, the vastness of existence reveals itself. One realizes that life and death, creation and destruction, are but two sides of the same coin. There is no beginning or end, only an eternal dance of energies, merging and parting, in a cosmic rhythm.